Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Türkiye

Türkiye: Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area was 1,027 1000 ha in 2024. ▲ Rising

Latest (2024)
1,027 1000 ha
Change on year
up 0.3%
World rank
19th
of 240 countries
All-time high
1,027 1000 ha
in 2024
All-time low
973.93 1000 ha
in 2001
Years of data
24
2001–2024

Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area in Türkiye, 2001–2024

02505007501.0k2001201220242001: 973.9 1000 ha2002: 978.7 1000 ha2003: 980 1000 ha2004: 980.4 1000 ha2005: 981.2 1000 ha2006: 981.7 1000 ha2007: 983.5 1000 ha2008: 985.6 1000 ha2009: 986.5 1000 ha2010: 987.9 1000 ha2011: 989.3 1000 ha2012: 991.3 1000 ha2013: 993.2 1000 ha2014: 996 1000 ha2015: 999.2 1000 ha2016: 1.0k 1000 ha2017: 1.0k 1000 ha2018: 1.0k 1000 ha2019: 1.0k 1000 ha2020: 1.0k 1000 ha2021: 1.0k 1000 ha2022: 1.0k 1000 ha2023: 1.0k 1000 ha2024: 1.0k 1000 ha

Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in 1000 ha.

Analysis

Türkiye recorded 1,027 1000 ha for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in 2024. That is the highest value across all 24 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 0.3% on the previous year and up 3.1% over ten years.

Over the whole period, artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Türkiye peaked at 1,027 1000 ha in 2024 and was at its lowest, 973.93 1000 ha, in 2001.

Türkiye ranks 19th of 240 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 24 years of available data.

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2000s 981.28 1000 ha 973.93 1000 ha 986.46 1000 ha 9
2010s 998.98 1000 ha 987.85 1000 ha 1,013 1000 ha 10
2020s 1,021 1000 ha 1,016 1000 ha 1,027 1000 ha 5

Countries ranked near Türkiye

  1. 16 Australia 1,125 1000 ha compare
  2. 17 Mexico 1,114 1000 ha compare
  3. 18 Canada 1,099 1000 ha compare
  4. 20 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 928.32 1000 ha compare
  5. 21 Nigeria 898.22 1000 ha compare
  6. 22 Poland 840.17 1000 ha compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Türkiye?
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area in Türkiye was 1,027 1000 ha in 2024, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
What is the highest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Türkiye?
The highest recorded value was 1,027 1000 ha in 2024.
What is the lowest artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area recorded in Türkiye?
The lowest recorded value was 973.93 1000 ha in 2001.
How does Türkiye rank for artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area?
Türkiye ranks 19th out of 240 countries with data for 2024.
Is artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — area rising or falling in Türkiye?
Over the last ten years it is up 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Türkiye data come from?
The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from MODIS. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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About this data

Indicator
Artificial surfaces (including urban and associated areas) — Area from MODIS
Unit
1000 ha
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (FAO)
Coverage
269 places, 6,390 data points, 2001–2024
Last refreshed

The FAOSTAT domain on Land Cover data under the Agri-Environmental Indicators section contains land cover information organized by the land cover classes of the international standard system for Environmental and Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA CF). The land cover information is compiled from publicly available Global Land Cover (GLC) maps: a) MODIS land cover types based on the Land Cover Classification System, LCCS; b) The European Spatial Agency (ESA) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) annual land cover maps produced by the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)-Geomatics and now under the European Copernicus Program; c) The annual land cover maps which were produced under the European Copernicus Global Land Service (CGLS) (CGLS land cover, containing discrete land cover categorization), with spatial resolution 100m; and d) the WorldCover maps of the European Space Agency, produced at 10m resolution.